Chapter 285: Bird's Peak
King Ba's eyes lit up, "You are indeed spies from Yin Du!"
Feng Shanyue nodded, "Shang Jun has gathered 10,000 troops and is about to come to conquer Fan Yue, if King Ba is willing to return to the imperial court and secretly help, in the future, in front of Shang Jun, I will definitely help to speak." β
"Shang Jun is really coming, then my Ba clan will have the time to see the light of day!" King Ba's face was full of excitement, and he suddenly calmed down, "Can I trust you?"
"King Ba, our two women sneaked into Monkey Mountain, and now we have leaked the bottom to you, and you still don't trust it, then I can't help it!"
King Ba thought about it, nodded, and decided to take this risk. Feng Shanyue whispered to him for a while, and King Ba said goodbye to her, and said before leaving: "My lark is a naΓ―ve child, with a straight temper, and among the concubines, Fan Yue dislikes her the most. You are by her side, please help me take care of it. Future...... In the future, when Fan Yue has an accident, please help me save her life. β
"Of course!"
Seven days later, the army of the Great Shang King had already driven to the border of Pakistan. General Guan sent General Leng as the vanguard and led people to scout all the way, but he didn't see any traces left by Feng Shanyue and his party.
He came to Ming Zhao's military tent with a solemn face, "Your Majesty, something can't have happened to the queen, right?"
Ming Zhao was reading a book, and when he heard him say this, he smiled slightly, "Why did General Guan say that?"
"The minister asked General Leng to investigate all the way, but he didn't find any trace of the queen, why don't you send someone to sneak into Pakistan to find it first, maybe she is waiting for someone to rescue her!"
"No, I'm sure the queen will be fine," Ming Zhao smiled slightly, "maybe she'll surprise us a little." β
General Guan shook his head and walked out of the military tent dejectedly. I really don't understand why the king trusts that queen so much, she doesn't seem to be reliable.
Ming Zhao, who was in the military tent, continued to look down at the book, and there were three bamboo tubes on the table in front of him, and a snake was drawn on the bamboo tube.
After entering Pakistan, the first pass that the Great Shang Wang Army encountered was the Bird Ridge. As the name suggests, it is a mountain range that even birds can't fly to. The Bird Ridge is divided into two parts by a deep valley, and the only way to pass through the Bird Ridge is to walk through this deep valley. Fan Yue set this place as a pass, and also took a fancy to its advantages of being easy to defend and difficult to attack. In charge of guarding the Bird Peak is Xiang Shaoqin, the king of the Xiang clan, who is the elder brother of the Xiang Concubine.
General Leng's sentry had already probed to the mouth of the valley three times, and when they came back, they all said that the valley was unguarded.
General Guan and General Leng rode horses and came to Ming Zhao. General Guan said: "Your Majesty, this bird's mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the deep valley in front is unguarded, I am afraid of fraud, it is better to send someone to turn over the ridge, check the reality, and then the army will pass, otherwise, if the other party is ambushed in the mountains on both sides, we are only afraid that we will suffer heavy losses." β
Ming Zhao smiled and shook his head, "No, I have a faster way to pass." β
General Guan looked at him suspiciously, not knowing what he could do. Ming Zhao took a special ringing arrow from the quiver behind him, and then took the bow and shot it towards the ridge. I only heard the sound of "boom", and the arrow slashed through the air, leaving a sharp sound.
At this time, the gongs on the mountain ridge sounded loudly, and I saw that many flags suddenly appeared in the mountains and forests, which were very calm before, and a big "phase" word was embroidered on them. Then the sound of shouting sounded all over the mountains, and General Guan was startled, and immediately shouted: "There is an ambush!
After speaking, he rode his horse in front of Ming Zhao, and while scanning the surrounding situation with his eyes, he said to Ming Zhao: "Your Majesty, it seems that this Bird Peerless Ridge has been prepared for a long time, you are the lord of the Great Merchant, you must not take the danger lightly, please retreat to ten miles away, and after the minister leads the army to take the Bird Peerless Ridge, I will come and invite you!"
Ming Zhao smiled calmly, "General Guan, don't be too nervous, these Pakistani soldiers are just waving flags on the mountain, and they don't mean to capture them." Wait a minute, someone will come out to meet us soon. β
"What?
General Guan is completely blinded, shouldn't he withdraw his troops as soon as possible at this time, so as not to fall into the enemy's ambush? Why do you have to wait? Sure enough, this Shang Jun is still too young and has no experience in fighting, so he has to personally levy the army, which is really too difficult to be a courtier.
At this time, the sound of horses' hooves came from Taniguchi, and General Guan raised his right hand, "Archers are ready!
Soon, the two horses galloped out of the valley and came to the front of the army of the Great Shang King. I saw one of them in his twenties, wearing the clothes of the local aborigines, and the other was a person who General Guan also knew, he was Li Kai.
"What's going on? Why is Li Kai here?"
General Leng gently pulled the reins to calm the horse a little, and then said to General Guan: "It seems that this is what the king said, the queen mother gave us a surprise!"
Li Kai and the young man stopped their horses, and then said loudly: "General Guan, Li Kai has something to report!"
General Guan glanced at him carefully, nodded, and General Leng shouted, "Come here!"
Li Kai left the young man where he was, rode his horse to General Guan, and gave a military salute, "General Guan, the little one is here to greet the king and General Guan!"
"What's going on?"
Li Kai said with a smile: "The one over there is the clan king of the Xiang clan, Xiang Shaoqin, he learned of the arrival of the Wang army and decided to surrender to the Wang army, so he personally came down to the ridge, met the king, and personally led the army across the valley." β
"Why did this Xiang Shao Qin surrender to the Wang army? Didn't he follow Fan Yue's order to guard this bird's mountain?"
The little one obeyed the arrangement of the queen mother, and quietly led people to sneak up the mountain, originally wanted to wait for the army to come, secretly destroy the opponent's defense line, and cooperate with the army, who knew that this young Qin did not really surrender to Fan Yue, so he tried to find out his identity with him. β
"He didn't arrest you?"
"We were arrested and put in a water cell for five or six days. Later, when he received the news from Monkey Mountain, he released us and asked us in detail about Yin Du and Junshang, and finally decided to surrender to the imperial court. β
General Guan nodded, and after turning back to explain the situation to Ming Zhao, he asked Xiang Shaoqin to come to pay a visit.
"Sinners are less than Qin, meet the king, and ask the king!"
"King Xiang, get up, I have long been informed that you plan to surrender to the imperial court, it is good that you have such an idea!"
Xiang Shaoqin stood up, "Fan Yue wants to join the forces of the five clans to resist the imperial court, but he is just using his mantis arm as a car, and Xiao Wang is also forced to obey him for the survival of his clansmen." Now that the king has come to ask for it, it is precisely to give Xiao Wang the opportunity to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. Therefore, when the little one learned of the arrival of the army, he immediately came down the mountain to meet the king and led the king's army across the valley. β